• Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises said that government is working on a policy to enable an MFI fund even the smallest of businesses. Key highlights: • It is aimed to increase liquidity in the market which…
• A recent amendment made in ISA agreement has now allowed alii92 member countries of the United Nations to join the Alliance. • Earlier, the alliance was only open to the solar resource-rich countries situated between the tropic of Cancer…
• Electronic vaccine intelligence network (eVIN) is an indigenously developed technological solution aimed at strengthening universal immunization by providing real-time information on vaccine stocks and flows. It combines: • Technology: to facilitate evidence-based decision-making. • Governance: to ensure efficient vaccine…
• Two US astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, returned from the International Space Station (ISS) on 2 August 2020. The Crew Dragon was designed and operated by Space-X. It is being used for this flight test can stay in…
• Insecurities (job, income and food) coupled with a fear psychosis forced migrant workers to reverse migrate to their homes. • There is a need for a national policy on migrant labour to protect the interests of the migrant workers.…
• National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) and ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) have entered into a MoU to conserve the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Genetic Resources (MAPGRs). • The conservation will be done in long-term storage module in…
• Recently, Ecuador has expressed an official discomfort over the sighting of Chinese fishing vessels near the Galapagos archipelago. About: • The Galapagos Islands are located in the Pacific Ocean around 1,000 km away from the South American continent. •…
• China’s administration has officially commissioned BeiDou Navigation Satellite System constellation. Key highlights: • It was initiated in 1994. • It aims to integrate its application in different sectors, including fishery, agriculture, special care, mass-market applications, forestry and public security.…
• A new international study has suggested that the smallpox was in existence as early as during the Viking age in the 8th century CE. Until now, the earliest confirmed case of the disease was found in the mummified remains…
• Affordable rental housing complexes (ARHC) scheme was recently launched as a sub scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban (PMAY-U). • PMAY-U, launched in 2015, intends to provide housing for all in urban areas by year 2022.…
• Muslim Women’s Rights Day is observed in India on 1 August 2020. The Day is observed to mark the first anniversary of the law against instant triple talaq. Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani, Union Law Minister…
• The paper titled ‘A strategic road map for conserving the endangered dhole Cuon alpinus in India’, was published recently in Mammal Review by Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society-India, the University of Florida, the Wildlife Conservation Trust, and the…
